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REGION:
South Australia, 2009

VITICULTURE & WINEMAKING:
The grapes for this wine were sourced from the Angove Family’s Nanya vineyards and premium growers in the Riverland region. Soils are predominantly red sandy loam over limestone, on gently undulating east west ridges.

Spring rains allowed the vines to develop a healthy canopy, setting up the 2009 Vintage. It was a relatively cool growing season, the exception being a short heatwave in February. The red varieties ripened in a slow and steady manner, allowing to the fruit to develop bright stable colour, a fine tannin structure and excellent varietal aromatic flavour. The resulting wines are deep in colour, rich and varietal.

WINEMAKERS’ NOTES:
The deep purple with garnet hues of this wine precede the vibrant redcurrant raspberry and cherry fruit notes of the wine. This medium bodied wine is fruit dominant but has some spicy tones on the palate, which comes from careful oak integration.

Enjoy with Kangaroo steaks with a red currant jam, pork loin or after dinner with your favourite rich cheeses.

TECHNICAL:
Variety: Shiraz
Alcohol: 14.0%
Titratable Acidity: 6.2 gms/l
Residual Sugar: <3 gms/l
Every bottle of Angove’s Bear Crossing sold throughout the world
generates funding to assist the Australian Koala Foundation in their
efforts to save the Koala.

Bear Crossing Shiraz 2002 - 86 Points

�Easy-drinking but pleasurable, with woodsy-charred tannins, I'd drink this with barbecue all the time, if only I had a barbecue. Cherry and dark plum fruit is ripe and accessible on the nose and the palate. It's not a complicated, nuanced wine, but that's no reason not to buy a few bottles to have around the house.� December 2003, USA

2011 Vintage - Riverland Wine Show 2011 - Bronze
2002 Vintage - Aust. Inland Wine Show 2003 - Bronze
2002 Vintage - Atlanta Int'l Wine Summit 2003 - Bronze

REGION:
South Australia, 2008

VITICULTURE & WINEMAKING:

WINEMAKERS' NOTES:
The deep purple with garnet hues of this wine precede the vibrant redcurrant raspberry and cherry fruit notes of the wine. This medium bodied wine is fruit dominant but has some spicy tones on the
palate, which comes from careful oak integration.

Enjoy with Kangaroo steaks with a red currant jam, pork loin or after dinner with your favourite rich cheeses.

TECHNICAL:
Variety: Shiraz
Alcohol: 14.0%
Titratable Acidity: 7.3 gms/l
Residual Sugar: 2 gms/l

Every bottle of Angove's Bear Crossing sold throughout the world generates funding to assist the Australian Koala Foundation in their efforts to save the Koala.